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 Sep 9 2006, 09:46 PM
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I'm looking for a recent map ot Titan. Steve Albers's page links to one done by Fridger Schrempp in April 2005. Cassini has done a dozen flybys since then. Does anyone know if an updated map has been released.
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Sep 10 2006, 12:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1278 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
I believe we have one coming soon!?
VP did talk about it earlier this year. |
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Sep 10 2006, 02:36 AM
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It's going
 I'm hoping to have it done in the next couple of weeks. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Sep 10 2006, 03:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1278 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
^ Wow I got goose bumps!!
Very excited now! 
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Oct 10 2006, 07:45 PM
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Any idea when the new map is released?
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Oct 10 2006, 11:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Anytime between 20 minutes ago and next year.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Oct 11 2006, 06:57 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Umm...Is that estimate given with 3-sigma confidence or?
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Oct 11 2006, 10:02 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
"...Anytime between 20 minutes ago and next year...."
REAL-SOON-NOW: Anytime between now and the decay of the last proton in the universe. |
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Oct 11 2006, 10:27 AM
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I always liked this method from the How to destroy the earth website, I know it is a little of topic but relevent to the last comment nonetheless.
You will need: all-surpassing patience Method: If the Big Crunch doesn't happen, and the Big Rip doesn't happen either, then we come back to the third option: the Big Chill. For this, the universe will just expand, forever. The laws of thermodynamics take over. Every galaxy becomes isolated from its neighbours. All the stars burn out. Everything gets colder until it's all the same temperature. And after that, nothing ever changes in the universe. For eternity. A lot can happen in an eternity. Protons, for example, while incredibly stable, are believed to eventually decay like any other particle. So simply wait for a period of time of the order of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years, and roughly half of the constituent particles of Earth will have decayed into positrons and pions. If that's still too much like a planet for you, you could wait for another 10^36 years, leaving only a quarter of the original Earth. Or wait even longer. Eventually there will be as little of Earth left as you wish. Earth's final resting place: Miscellaneous positrons and gamma radiation (pions decay almost instantly into gamma ray photons) scattered thinly across the entire universe. |
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Oct 11 2006, 01:21 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 14-June 05 From: Cambridge, MA Member No.: 411 |
Sure, and by then all the Titan maps will be gone, and I will have waited all that time for Nothing!
 - John Sheff Cambridge, MA |
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Oct 11 2006, 03:33 PM
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I think the map makers are holding off until the poorly imaged area are imaged well from Febraury 2007.
-------------------- I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed.
- Opening line from episode 13 of "Cosmos" |
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Oct 11 2006, 03:56 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
actually no. I'm just a perfectionist...
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Nov 5 2006, 01:22 PM
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So where can I find the last published map?
-------------------- --Atanas
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Nov 5 2006, 02:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Try this: http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=871
I don't know if any more up-to-date maps were released in the meantime. IMHO, it would be high time to release an updated map with better Fensal-Aztlan coverage! (hint, hint, Jason )
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Nov 22 2006, 05:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
Almost half way -- 42 days down, 40 to go.
Unless that was a Saturn year, of course . . . --Greg :-) |
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